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… of providing equal educational opportunity in an increasingly multi-cultural society. Ironically, re-segregation has become prevalent in some school districts while at the … have lowered admissions standards. Both developments are compromising the original intent of Brown. On May 17, 1954, …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … border wall with Mexico, and that Mexico would pay for it. Since taking office, President Trump and Mexican President … two nations' current areas of cooperation and disagreement compare to their longer history together?   Brenna Miller  …

… has been widely recognized as a center of civil resistance since May 1980, when a brutal military crackdown targeted … as a “city of peace and human rights,” emphasizing the community’s legacy of peaceful organization and solidarity, … the event continues to resist any singular description. Its complexity is reflected in the many names used to describe …

… put terrorism in the forefront of American consciousness. Since then, the U.S. has waged a nearly ubiquitous global … dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … independent lines of evidence. Out of this basic framework comes a grand history of our universe … and plenty of … electromagnetism, and gravity – were unified into a single force. What this force looked like, how it operated, …

… World as We Know It? It has been almost one hundred years since the German philosopher and historian Oswald Spengler … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … European Union's population stands at 500 million with a combined GDP of $16 trillion outpacing the U.S. by $2 …

… of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … in schools. Lesbian and gay childrearing is increasingly visible in American culture, in television shows and … with children have laid the groundwork for what has now become a central focus on domestic and family rights in the …

… were often labeled luxuriant leeches. However, by 1900, the common dog was a faithful companion and beloved family member. While not everyone … had altered agricultural landscapes and communal life since the 13th century, the upheaval of this process of … How Dogs Became Our Faithful Family Companions …

… visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the imposing 18th-century fort that guards the entrance to the port, … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … made a home in a Havana hotel, writing his prose with ambient city noise outside his window. Fidel Castro and his …

… Since August 2014, events of all kinds across the globe have … democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … World War II or Vietnam. Almost a third of the 10 million combatants who died in World War I have no known grave—the …

… to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The … Malawi and Livingstonia in 1966 (Photo by Laird Scott). Since the Scottish missionaries handed over the Livingstonia … hydrological feature known as “holy water:” water comes up from a small hole in the ground and runs for two or …

… These incidents and others like them have all occurred since the savage attacks on the World Trade Center towers in … the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd … acceptable, Gen. John DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, observed: “A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference …

… less funny than Rogers — to describe the dilemma of the incoming Democratic majorities in both Congressional houses. … How can these Democrats govern, puzzles the punditocracy, since they are clearly so riven and disorganized? The … of its own internal contradictions. This conclusion has become an orthodoxy in the press. But this consensus seems …

… In the process, they returned Taiwan's administration to a single-party system ( yidang duda or "one party rule") … is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … paper ballots counted by hand, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) announced that evening that KMT candidate …

… all areas claimed by Muslims, Christians and Jews. Since the 6th century CE, the Cardo has witnessed continuous … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian … residents of Silwan ask themselves in East Jerusalem. The community members gathered one evening for a celebration at …

… “If you win, you die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in the Black Power salute in 1968. Gay … in putting the nation on display on the global stage. And coming up, Brazil : about to host to the 2014 World Cup and … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone …

… ambitions to make urban agriculture into a sustainable business. Jennifer Eaglin is a Latin American historian of … boys, River and Blue. Folks, you can unveil yourselves and come on to the screen if you'd like. Welcome thank you for joining us. Kip, Bart, and Jennifer, …

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … Although the Tirana Valley has been continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age, it was not officially established as a … During World War II, the country saw the creation of the Communist Party of Albania, and after an intense battle in …

… attacked Gingrich’s proposal as failing the rational business test, he was right, too: The cost would be enormous. … — have orbited the earth since 1961. Space travel cannot become cheap until the age of rocketry is replaced by an age … actual payload. Nor are rockets fully reliable. To launch a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit demands …

… When U.S. senators voted to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, they took a giant step … an apocalyptic passage from Hindu scripture: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Since that moment, the world has lived in the nuclear …

… In April 2012, Viktor Bout, perhaps the single biggest private arms trader in the world, was … employed them in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown … a long line of efforts on the part of the international community to control and restrict the arms trade. In one …

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent since 1991. Map of Kazakhstan Our expedition was part of a … meal. We spent the night in our sleeping bags in a large communal dormitory. Path inside the Konyr-Aulie cave. Some …

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … before he had the opportunity to enter the embassy complex. This shows that individual initiative and … USS Cole in 2000. Yet the 9/11 attacks came as a surprise since they completely re-wrote the rules of airliner …

… 26 of 32 Irish counties received considerable, albeit not complete, independence. The following day, however, six … Irish division. Although England held a presence in Ireland since the late 1100s, this political division was the … Party introduced the possibility of Home Rule as a way of compromising on the so-called Irish question. Home Rule …